Nothing But a Man 1964  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Roemer
Cast: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster, Martin Priest, Leonard Parker, Yaphet Kotto, Stanley Greene, Helen Lounck, Helene Arrindell, Mel Stewart
In Alabama during the 1950s, a young Black couple–Duff (Ivan Dixon) and Josie (Abbey Lincoln)–struggle in the midst of racial prejudice to live lives of dignity.
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A Patch of Blue 1965 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon, John Qualen, Elisabeth Fraser, Renata Vanni, Debi Storm, Kelly Flynn, Saverio LoMedico, Tom Curtis, Robert Williams, Dorothy Lovett, Gregg Martell
Selina D'Arcy (Elizabeth Hartman) is a blind, White girl who meets a Black man, Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier), at the park and falls in love with him. Although his brother Mark (Ivan Dixon) sternly advises Gordon to tell Salina that he is Black, Gordon refuses to do so. Problems rise to the fore when Selina's selfish mother Rose-Ann (Shelley Winters) learns about Gordon and Selina's relationship and forbids Selina from being with Gordon because he is Black. Despite Rose-Ann's objections, Gordon and Selina remain bonded. Winters won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and Hartman was nominated for Best Actress.
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Percy & Thunder 1993  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ivan Dixon
Cast: Gloria Foster, James Earl Jones, Zakes Mokae, Gloria Reuben, Courtney B. Vance, Billy Dee Williams, Robert Wuhl, Mick E. Jones, Ron Shipp, Mike Finneran, Henry Darrow, John Pleshette, Joan Pringle, Ketty Lester, James Tillis
Percy Baker (James Earl Jones) is a former prizefighter who trains a potential champ, Thunder Carter (Courtney B. Vance). While training at Sugar Brown's (Gloria Foster) camp, Thunder catches the eye of Ralph Tate (Billy Dee Williams). Tate runs a syndicate, and he wants in on the property. Percy is replaced but does not step aside easily, and he works at cleaning up the corruption in boxing.
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 Porgy and Bess 1959  N/R, 146 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Ivan Dixon, Claude Akins, Pearl Bailey, Clarence Muse, Ruth Attaway
Andre Previn and Ken Darby won the Academy Award for Best Musical Score for this film based on Ira Gershwin's classic folk opera about life on Catfish Row.
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A Raisin in the Sun 1961  N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett Jr., Stephen Perry, Joel Fluellen, Roy Glenn, Ray Stubbs, Rudolph Monroe, George DeNormand, Louis Terrel, Thomas D. Jones
In the 1950s, the African-American Younger family–Lena (Claudia McNeil), her son Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier), his wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), and their college-age daughter Beneatha (Diana Sands)–live a cramped existence in Chicago's South Side. Lena inherits $10,000 when her husband dies, and family members differ on how the money should be spent. Finally, Lena gets her way and buys a home for her family–in an all-White neighborhood in Chicago where the Youngers are the first Black family to move in.
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Something of Value 1957 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Sidney Poitier, Walter Fitzgerald, Frederick O'Neal, Juano Hernandez, William Marshall, Robert Beatty, Michael Pate, Ivan Dixon, Ken Renard, Samadu Jackson, Wilton Graff, Angela Cartwright
Based on Robert Ruark's novel, this is the story of childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier) and Peter McKenzie (Rock Hudson) who, despite one being Black and the other White, had grown up like brothers in British East Africa. Now, as adults, their relationship is shattered when Peter sides with British colonialism, and Kimani joins the brutal Mau-Maus in their uprising in Kenya.
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? 1970  PG, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: War Games
Director: Hy Averback
Cast: Brian Keith, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Ivan Dixon, Suzanne Pleshette, Tom Ewell, Bradford Dillman, Arthur O'Connell, Don Ameche, John Fiedler, William Bramley, Eddie Firestone, Dorothy Green, Grady Sutton, Christopher Mitchum
Col. Flanders (Don Ameche) must deal with citizens of a small town who are unhappy about the Army missile base located nearby. To help solve the problem, Flanders invites the townsfolk to a party that degenerates into a fistfight between the soldiers and the guests. Meanwhile, a soldier, Shannon Gambroni (Tony Curtis), has fallen for bar maid Ramona (Suzanne Pleshette) who town Sheriff Harve (Ernest Borgnine) considers his property. Harve has Shannon arrested, and Shannon's soldier friends, headed by Michael M. Nace (Brian Keith), take matters into their own hands and use a World War II tank to rescue Shannon.
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| 1. Nothing But a Man (1964)
2. A Patch of Blue (1965)
3. Percy & Thunder (1993)
4. Porgy and Bess (1959)
5. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
6. Something of Value (1957)
7. Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
aka: War Games
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